Hail in Kit Carson Jul 29, 2026
Hit 5 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 6 hail signatures up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft489
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Kit Carson has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 54 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Kit Carson saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Jul 29, 2026 sits in Kit Carson's hail record
This was Kit Carson's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Jul 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kit Carson at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kit Carson: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 32 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Haswell (19 miles southwest, up to 1"); Sugar City (55 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Ordway (60 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Kit Carson's Jul 29, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Kit Carson for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.75" hail means for Kit Carson roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
$5.9M
Potential roof exposure — 489 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Kit Carson on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Kit Carson, CO
Other storms in Kit Carson
Jul 10, 2026
1"
Jul 1, 2026
0.5"
Jun 21, 2026
1.25"
Jun 8, 2026
2.5"
May 29, 2026
2.25"
May 9, 2026
1"